I read somewhere, we could use gsl se housings in the reni. Is this possible and has someone already done it? If so, can you use the lower comp rotors as well? It gives me an idea on an engine build. Any and all input is welcomed, so fire away.

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Don't turbo it. Unless you just love wasting money you will never get what you want. Space and heat are your two biggest enemies here. To do a turbo right, major fab work to the subframe needs to be done. Putting a turbo on a RENI will drive your engine life from poor to matter of when the coolant seals will blow. Even if you switch out housings you will still have issues. Two ECU 's ( one for the CANBUS system and other being engine ) will be expensive and nite mare to integrate correctly. Yes people have done it, but they never last long.

Thank you for the input, I appreciate it. I knew that the reni doesn't last long boosted, I was curious if it would be different when using the se engine parts. I was sure it would last longer with the se's 3mm seals. I guess the second option is to port it and I've heard that you can't bridgeport a reni. Is that true?

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I'm a sick individual, what's wrong with you?
I'm pure Evil
I'm still insane, in the best possible way.
I think Brian's idea of romance is using lube.
Your rage caused the meteor strike in Russia. The Antichrist would be proud of his minion.
You win with your thread. Most everythingIt's a truck with a steel gate on the back. Just a statement of fact

Adaptronics is supposedly releasing a full CANBUS compatible stand alone "next year"... We'll see, but the ECU deal isn't all that complicated... Mazdaedit will let you reflash the stock ECU for the S1 or S2 RX8s.

I would personally use the Adaptronic piggy back, and swap in an REW block with Renesis front cover.

Adaptronics is supposedly releasing a full CANBUS compatible stand alone "next year"... We'll see, but the ECU deal isn't all that complicated... Mazdaedit will let you reflash the stock ECU for the S1 or S2 RX8s.

Unless MazdaEdit has actually titled their maps it's futile.

Also of note and little known fact, you can only flash the stock ECU so many times before it literally smokes itself.

We had this issue at Speed1 on an S2 that we were trying to get running complete with turblow turbo kit. The owner eventually put the car back to stock and sold it.

Adaptronics pisses me off because on that same S2 we were told up and down that their shit would work, they've done it, blah blah blah. We only later found out that they were guessing and lying to us and using us as the guinea pigs... that pissed me off because it was me that was on the dyno for days with nothing but pure hatred and rage building inside me

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Originally Posted by reddozen

I would personally use the Adaptronic piggy back, and swap in an REW block with Renesis front cover.

Been there, done that too on the Diasio that we had. REW block, renni front cover, PITA to get the end play right (look at the difference in thickness between an REW and renni front iron), and IIRC we had to grind the front cover do the counterweight would rotate completely and then weld some material on because in grinding it we punched through the outside.

I'm a sick individual, what's wrong with you?
I'm pure Evil
I'm still insane, in the best possible way.
I think Brian's idea of romance is using lube.
Your rage caused the meteor strike in Russia. The Antichrist would be proud of his minion.
You win with your thread. Most everythingIt's a truck with a steel gate on the back. Just a statement of fact

Check out the posts from rmvpa007 on the link below. He's basically saying that you can use a modified 12a counterweight to balance the assembly and install the front cover without modifying it significantly. I have no clue as the accuracy of his claims though. Surely a custom counterweight could be made to facilitate the front cover issue, or mitigate the risk of grinding through it. Again though, I don't have all these parts in front of me to know what would be possible or not. I do know that the Renesis counterweight is pretty sunk into the front iron...http://www.rx8club.com/rotary-swaps-...-255013/page8/

Adaptronics is supposedly releasing a full CANBUS compatible stand alone "next year"... We'll see, but the ECU deal isn't all that complicated... Mazdaedit will let you reflash the stock ECU for the S1 or S2 RX8s.

I would personally use the Adaptronic piggy back, and swap in an REW block with Renesis front cover.

I'm helping with it now, it was because of me we have the ECU in the first place. yes i know....wow.
Ric Shaw Racing Australia.

Also of note and little known fact, you can only flash the stock ECU so many times before it literally smokes itself.

We had this issue at Speed1 on an S2 that we were trying to get running complete with turblow turbo kit. The owner eventually put the car back to stock and sold it.

Adaptronics pisses me off because on that same S2 we were told up and down that their shit would work, they've done it, blah blah blah. We only later found out that they were guessing and lying to us and using us as the guinea pigs... that pissed me off because it was me that was on the dyno for days with nothing but pure hatred and rage building inside me"

I was the first to do S2 RX8 with Adaptronics, also a turbo car. it makes 270 kws at wheels here in Australia and drives as factory. what is the issue??
i am keen to know what went wrong for you.